Arnold Bikers Club has raised a phenomenal £5,130 this year for Nottingham Children's Hospital Cancer Ward E39 🎉 Ann Rogers and her team of bikers have worked tirelessly alongside a number of local businesses in Arnold. Together, they've hosted some epic raffles, tombolas, football matches and charity nights, all in aid of the Children's Cancer Ward at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. We're so grateful for the ongoing support of the Arnold Bikers and their local community 💛 Year on year, they raise money to make the lives of children battling cancer that little bit easier and more comfortable. Their donations are used to improve the ward environment - making it more child-friendly - and fund additional support and services for parents and their families. Arnold Bikers Club's most recent donation will be gratefully received in the run up to Christmas, putting a smile on the faces of our young cancer patients, their families, and the staff who care for them. On behalf of the team of doctors and nurses on Ward E39, we want to say a HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who was involved - you guys are awesome! 🌟

Samuel Coleman has been nominated for the Nottingham Post Young Hero Award! 🌟 At thirteen years old, Samuel was the youngest person ever to complete our Big QMC Abseil. He raised nearly £500 for our Big i-MRI Appeal, which will fund a brand new state-of-the-art MRI scanner. The scanner will help doctors treat children who must undergo brain surgery, including children with brain tumours. The winners of the Nottingham Post Heroes Awards will be announced on Tuesday 20th November. 💕 For more info about the i-MRi Appeal and how you can help: www.nottinghamhospitalscharity.org.uk/appeals/the-big-appeal/big-imri-appeal/

Our fundraisers never cease to amaze us. Ryan Mace donated his kidney as part of a donor chain. As a result, THREE lives were saved - including Ryan's best friend, Lee. But Ryan didn't stop there. In July, he completed the Liverpool Night Ride 100k, raising £1,000 for the Renal Unit at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust to thank doctors and nurses for supporting him through the entire process. You can read all about Ryan and the other donors in The Guardian 👇

The 17th annual Christmas Covers Party is taking over The Bodega on 22nd December!🎄⛄🦌 Watch the OFFICIAL TRAILER below. Half of proceeds from the event will go to Zephyr's Nottingham, which provides loving support for families in Nottingham who've experienced the death of a child or baby. 🌟 Get your tickets online: www.alttickets.com/christmas-covers-tickets 🌟 More info is available on the Facebook event: www.facebook.com/events/760178804323560/

Tia Leape was born ten years ago and spent the first four months of her life on the Neonatal Unit at QMC. She arrived in the world 15 weeks early weighing only 1lb 11oz, and underwent heart surgery at one month old. Tia and her mum, Joanne, returned to the Neonatal Unit this week to visit Mary Palframan and the team of doctors and nurses who took care of Tia all those years ago 💕 Tia and her mum also had a big surprise for the Neonatal team. In September, to celebrate Tia's tenth year, Joanne climbed Mount Snowdon and raised an amazing total of £1,010 for our Neonatal Appeal! This money will make such a difference to tiny babies, like Tia, on our neonatal units at QMC and City Hospital. We were so honoured to see Tia and her mum present their cheque to Mary and team 🌟 Joanne said: “I decided to climb Mount Snowdon to raise money for the neonatal unit because if it wasn't for them my daughter wouldn't be here today. The dedication they show towards every baby that comes on to the unit is amazing. I would like to say a huge thank you to Mary and all the amazing team on the neonatal unit. You all got me through the first few months of my daughter's life. We will be forever grateful.” For information about out Neonatal Appeal, and how you can help enhance care for our tiny babies, visit: www.nottinghamhospitalscharity.org.uk/appeals/the-big-appeal/big-neonatal-appeal/

The FABULOUS Swift family has been nominated for a Nottingham Post Heroes Award! Tony and Wendy, and son Adam, have been transforming their house and garden in Nuthall into a Winter Wonderland for the last fifteen Christmases. Last year, they raised over £13,000 for Hayward House, which has a very special place in their hearts 💕 We're so proud to work closely alongside the Swift family and support their fundraising for our Hayward House Appeal. And we can't wait to witness their festive spectacle again this year!🎄⛄❄️ Join the Swifts and Gogglebox's Siddiqui family on 18th November to see the lights switched on: https://www.facebook.com/nuthallchristmaslights14

On Tuesday, we awarded our first ever William Colacicchi Fellowship Award to Dr Sarah Forster. Dr Forster (pictured second from right) is researching how new IT and digital services can be used to support NHS hospitals up and down the country. By examining stats from Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, she is finding ways to improve the admissions and monitoring processes for the benefit all patients. To date, we've invested almost £8million in a wide range of NHS research. The William Colacicchi Fellowship is named after our former Chairman (pictured left), who retired this year after serving twelve years on our Board of Trustees. We're delighted that the first Fellowship Award in his name will support Nottingham hospitals staff as they aim to deliver the best possible care for all patients 💕

Poppy McGill has been nominated for the Nottingham Post's Child of Courage Award! 💫 Poppy was four when doctors found a tumour the size of a golf ball in her brain. Since then, she's undergone radiotherapy and six rounds of chemotherapy at Nottingham Children's Hospital. Incredibly, her family and friends have also raised over £2,600 so far for our Big i-MRI Appeal! Neurosurgeon Donald MacArthur gave Poppy the all-clear in July - since then, she's even started school! We're so proud to watch Poppy's amazing recovery and honoured to work with her parents, Steve and Rona, to fund an intra-operative MRI machine to help treat children diagnosed with brain tumours, just like Poppy 💛 The winners of the Nottingham Post Heroes Awards will be announced on Tuesday 20th November. For more info about the i-MRi Appeal and how you can help: www.nottinghamhospitalscharity.org.uk/appeals/the-big-appeal/big-imri-appeal/

It's that time of year again... ❄️ Every year, the amazing Swift family in Nuthall decorates their house and garden in thousands of Christmas lights to raise money for our Hayward House Appeal! For the second year running, the lights will be switched on by GOGGLEBOX stars - the Siddiqui family! Join the Swifts and the The Siddiquis Gogglebox from at 6pm on Sunday 18 November for mince pies, mulled wine, Christmas carols and, of course, lots of lights! ⛄🎄🎶 Tony and Wendy Swift, and son, Adam, began fundraising for Hayward House after Wendy's dad, John, was diagnosed with terminal cancer 15 years ago. John was cared for at Hayward House and the family want to thank staff for taking such good care of him. The Nuthall Christmas Lights has raised more than £100,000 for charity in that time 💕 Find out more about the Nuthall Lights: www.facebook.com/nuthallchristmaslights14/

This week is very special for Nottingham Hospitals Charity - it's our twelfth anniversary!🎉 All of our successes over the last twelve years have been supported by our first Charity Chairman, William Colacicchi, who retired from his post this year. We're celebrating the Charity's twelfth year by launching the William Colacicchi Clinical Fellowship, in honour of William. In our latest blog post, our Chief Exec., Barbara Cathcart, gives her personal perspective on the Fellowship and why we're continuing to invest in clinical research at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust: https://www.nottinghamhospitalscharity.org.uk/news/supporting-medical-research-in-nottingham/